138 The Complete Angler 



skill with the angle-rod; and doubtless, if it be 

 thrown into the water a day or two before, at 

 several times, and in small pellets, you are the 

 likelier, when you fish for the Carp, to obtain your 

 desired sport. Or, in a large pond, to draw them 

 to any certain place, that they may the better and 

 with more hope be fished for, you are to throw into 

 it, in some certain place, either grains, or blood mixt 

 with cow-dung or with bran ; or any garbage, as 

 chicken's guts or the like ; and then, some of your 

 small sweet pellets with which you propose to angle : 

 and these small pellets being a few of them also 

 thrown in as you are angling, will be the better. 



And your paste must be thus made: take the 

 flesh of a rabbit, or cat, cut small ; and bean-flour ; 

 and if that may not be easily got, get other flour ; 

 and then, mix these together, and put to them either 

 sugar, or honey, which I think better : and then 

 beat these together in a mortar, or sometimes work 

 them in your hands, your hands being very clean ; 

 and then make it into a ball, or two, or three, as you 

 like best, for your use : but you must work or pound 

 it so long in the mortar, as to make it so tough as 

 to hang upon your hook without washing from it, 

 yet not too hard : or, that you may the better keep 

 it on your hook, you may knead with your paste a 

 little, and not too much, white or yellowish wool. 



And if you would have this paste keep all the 

 year, for any other fish, then mix with it virgin-wax 

 and clarified honey, and work them together with 

 your hands, before the fire; then make these into 

 balls, and they will keep all the year. 



And if you fish for a Carp with gentles, then put 

 upon your hook a small piece of scarlet about this 

 bigness | , it being soaked in or anointed with oil 

 of petre, called by some, oil of the rock : and if 



